Editing Committee on Public Information (section)

==Staff==
Among those who participated in the CPI's work were:
* [[Edward Bernays]], a pioneer in public relations and later theorist of the importance of propaganda to democratic governance.<ref>[[W. Lance Bennett]], "Engineering Consent: The Persistence of a Problematic Communication Regime," in Peter F. Nardulli, ed., ''Domestic Perspectives on Contemporary Democracy'' (University of Illinois Press, 2008), 139</ref> He directed the CPI's ''Latin News Service''. The CPI's poor reputation prevented Bernays from handling American publicity at the 1919 Peace Conference as he wanted.<ref>{{cite book | first1=Martin J. | last1=Manning | first2=Herbert | last2=Romerstein | title=Historical Dictionary of American Propaganda | date=2004 | publication-place=Westport, Connecticut | publisher=Greenwood Press | url=https://archive.org/details/historicaldictio0000mann | page=24| isbn=978-0-313-29605-5 }}</ref>
* [[Carl R. Byoir]] (1886{{spaced ndash}}1957), like Bernays, a founding father of public relations in America.
* Maurice Lyons was the Secretary of the committee. Lyons was a journalist who got involved in politics when he became secretary to William F. McCombs, who was Chairman of the Democratic National Committee during  Woodrow Wilson's presidential campaign of 1912.
* [[Charles Edward Merriam]], a professor of political science at the University of Chicago and an adviser to several US Presidents.
* [[Ernest Poole]]. Poole was the co Director of the Foreign Press Bureau division. Poole was awarded the very first [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]] for his novel, ''His Family''.
* Dennis J. Sullivan, Manager of Domestic Distribution for films made by the CPI.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/vhp/story/loc.natlib.afc2001001.28523/|title=Dennis J. Sullivan collection: Veterans History Project (Library of Congress)|website=memory.loc.gov|access-date=2017-05-09}}</ref>
* [[Vira Boarman Whitehouse]], director of the CPI's office in Switzerland. She repeatedly crossed into Germany to deliver propaganda materials. She later told of her experiences in ''A Year as a Government Agent'' (1920).<ref>Manning, 319-20</ref>